We're super proud to share with you that InsuranceERM has awarded CIMCON Software the Best End-UserComputing Risk Management Solution in its InsuranceERM Awards 2017!! This recognition confirms CIMCON as the industry standard for EUC risk management automation software.

The annual InsuranceERM awards acknowledge the best in risk and capital management. Each nomination goes through two rounds of judging by senior industry experts from across Europe and the UK. Last night Craig Hattabaugh, CIMCON CEO was present at City Hall in London to accept the award.

“Being named the Best End-User Computing Risk Management Solution is a testament to the success our customers have had using CIMCON to eliminate spreadsheet errors and ensure integrity of their most critical EUCS,” said Craig Hattabaugh, Chief Executive Officer at CIMCON Software. “We’re honored that InsuranceERM recognised us for our ability to automate and streamline the spreadsheet error discovery and EUC control process and our continued commitment to invest in enabling technologies, such as cloud.”

Here is what InsuranceERM had to say about CIMCON Software:

Best end-user computing risk management solution: CIMCON

Computing systems within insurance organisations largely fall into two camps: the systems that are formally managed by the IT department; and the end-users that develop applications and use them for some purpose.

For insurers, spreadsheets often form a core part of models and analysis, and actuaries will often develop new tools in these and other end-user computing applications (EUCs).

In some cases, these EUCs become critical to running the business and comprise collections of interlinked systems, touched by many people and used across multiple areas of the company. Needless to say, any errors arising from EUCs can have material consequences - and it is almost impossible to manually find all the mistakes within these complex processes.

There are other reasons to improve the governance around these processes beyond material financial errors: insurers run the risk of business disruption, fraud, losing data, regulatory fines and reputational damage.

CIMCON’s approach is to solve this from both ends of the spectrum. First, to safeguard EUC integrity on an enterprise level, helping risk professionals automatically discover, control and report on highest risk spreadsheets and EUCs; second, to eliminate errors on an individual EUC level, helping fix all types of errors in spreadsheets used in critical business processes.

This not only mitigates operational risk to the business, but improves productivity for the first, second and third lines of defence. The first line spends less time checking their spreadsheets and participating in EUC risk management only takes seconds. The second line of defence just needs to look at automated reports to confirm compliance with EUC policy. And the third line can spend less time evaluating the effectiveness of controls.

Historically such EUC control systems have been the domain of very large firms, but CIMCON reports more smaller firms are coming on board.

There are other drivers emerging, such as cyber risk. While the system is not aimed at stopping breaches, having control over computing applications is an important aspect to an overall IT security strategy.

CIMCON’s latest developments have focused on accessibility via the cloud, as more companies shift away from on-premises systems for storing and processing data.